Enviroment

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> anyway, the correct syntax is:
    >> 
    >> os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "/usr/lib etc

    Robert> hmmmm but it makes no use of it while importing.  If I made a
    Robert> script

I think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is only consulted once by the dynamic linker at
program start, so changing its value in a running script won't affect the
behavior of the script itself.  That explains your results (and probably
avoids a security hole you could drive a mack truck through).

If you are using a relatively recent version of Apache you can tell it what
variables to pass through to CGI scripts and also set their values.  Check
out the PassEnv directive.  I think the setter thing is SetEnv.

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